Highland woman suspected of sexually abusing her daughters

HIGHLAND >> Pictures on a cell phone found inside an inmate’s state prison cell prompted Highland deputies to arrest a woman for allegedly sexually abusing her children.

Officers at Kern Valley State Prison — located in Delano — found heroin and a cell phone in the cell of Juan Bravo, who is serving a life sentence, according to a statement from the Highland sheriff’s station.

On Wednesday prison officials told Highland deputies, pictures on the phone in Bravo’s cell showed a Highland woman sexually assaulting her two daughters, both minors.

The woman, Evelyn Alvarez, 28, took the photos and sent them to Bravo, according to the sheriff’s station.

She’s being held at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga in lieu of $250,000 bail, suspected of two counts of committing lewd acts with a child under 14 and photographing an obscene act with a minor,